James anderson



(No' Model) J. ANDERSON. BUCKET BAIL EAR.

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' UNITED STATES,

JAMES ANDERSON, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

SIDNEY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILSON OAROTHERS, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKET BAIL-EAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 594,340, dated November 23, 1897.

Application filed July 26, 1897. Serial No. fi -5,999. (NomodeL) bucket bail-ears; and it has for its object the production of a bail-ear suitable for buckets subject to rough usage-such as horse-buckets, mortar-buckets, and the likeit being simple in construction, durable in use, and

well calculated for strengthening the bucket.

The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings,and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view in elevation of a wooden bucket provided with bailears of my improved construction. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the same, taken through the bail-ears. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the bail-ears.

Referring to the drawings, A is a wooden bucket provided with metal hoops, as usual, and B is the bail.

0 represents my improved bail-ear, which is formed from a single strip of metal. The upper or ear portion proper, e, is rounded and curved, as shown, and from the outer end of this portion depends an outer strap f, having a hook h at its lowerend, said hook being preferably formed by bending the metal first at a right angle at 1 and then again upward at a right angle at 2, the distance between these bends being about equal to the thickness of the staves of the bucket. The length of this outer strap is such that while the ear portion e is above the upper edge of the bucket the hook will clasp the chime tat the lower end of the bucket, the chime and lower hoop being preferably recessed, as at 5, to receive the hook. From the inner end of the ear portion 6 also depends an inner strap g, substantially parallel with the outer strap, this strap being of a length to extend downward to a point 0pposite the upper hoop of the bucket. Both straps of each bail-ear are perforated, as at 6,

that the inner strap serves to brace and strengthen the eye portion, which is brought thereby'direc-tly over the upper edge of the bucket.

I am aware that bucket bail-ears have been heretofore constructed in which the ear portion was formed integral with an outer strap only, said strap having a bend at the lower end adapted to rest under the lower chime of the bucket. I make no claim to that construction; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an article of manufacture, abail-ear for wooden buckets, comprising a rounded and curved ear portion, an integral outer strap having a hook at its lower end adapt-ed to clasp over the lower chime of the bucket, and an inner strap integral with the ear portion and parallel with the outer strap, both of said straps being perforated for the reception of rivets, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a wooden bucket,

of two bail-ears, each having an integral outer strap formed with a hook at its lower end adapt-ed to clasp over the lower chime of the bucket,and also having an integral inner strap reaching to a point opposite the upper hoop and parallel with the outer strap, said ears being rigidly secured to the bucket by rivets passed through the straps, the hoops, and the staves.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

J. F. BLACK, D. OLDHAM. 

